Japanese young people have no desires, dreams, and motivation. Japan has fallen into a low-desire society.
In recent years, with the changes in people's lifestyles, a new term has emerged, called "Low Desire Society". The term is very suitable to describe the current situation in Japan, because young people in Japan now have very low desire for consumption or marriage and childbirth.
According to survey data in Japan in the most recent year, 70% of Japanese men before the age of 35 have never been in a relationship, and the demand for love among young people has reached a new low.
In Japanese traditional concepts, the next step after marriage is to buy a house, followed by childbirth, so when people’s desire for love decreases, the desire for childbirth and buying a house will naturally follow. reduce. Compared with these pressures, many young people are more willing to enjoy the single life and spend more time working on their careers. A society with low desires without marriage and childbearing and buying houses has become a common situation in Japan. can't help but make people in China worry about whether we will become like this in the future.
Why Japan became a "low desire society"
Anyone familiar with Japanese history knows that Japan in ancient times was far less developed than China. Their rise was after Meiji Restoration. Due to military activities, Let their military power suddenly increase, and with the help of the war, they cruelly exploited the weak China at that time. got on the train of capitalism and became a developed country in Asia.
There was a time when Japan’s economy was very prosperous.The economy has grown rapidly, the purchasing power of the people has increased significantly, and tourism as a tertiary industry has also developed rapidly. Japan's development momentum during this period is extremely fast, and even the United States can't catch up.
However, it is precisely because of Japan’s rapid development that it has fewer industries and unstable foundations . Japan’s economy is like building a tall building on a land that has not yet been laid. Once the hurricane of economic crisis swept over it, it would soon be completely destroyed.
Japan’s economy has fallen from a height and returned to the soil. Japanese lives have also undergone earth-shaking changes. Salaries have been reduced, employees have been laid off, and widespread unemployment has led to a decline in Japan’s overall consumption level. It has grown up in that era All Japanese people spend money cautiously, and can almost be regarded as the most stable generation in Japan.
Up to now, this generation has grown up and become a new generation of young people in Japan. Although Japan’s economy has recovered, the tragic life at the beginning still left these young people deeply They have become the most stable generation in Japan. They are afraid that the tragedy will happen again, so they want to save as much money as possible while they are young, so as not to be powerless when the economy collapses in the future.
Young people should be the main force driving the country’s consumption, but they have always maintained a cautious concept of consumption. They are unwilling to fall in love, marry, or buy houses and have children in order to save money. This directly causes the entire society of Japan to suffer After the impact, he was caught in an endless loop of "low desire".
Current situation in China
With the phenomenon of Japan becoming more and more serious, many Chinese people can’t help but worry that our society will become like this one day. If combines China and Japan Compare the status quo,We will find that although we can't talk about the extent of a "low desire society", some "low desire" phenomena have already begun to appear.
Now, late marriage and late childbirth have become more and more common phenomena. Many people are unwilling to have children when they are young, or even do not want to have children at all. This has led to a sharp decline in China’s population growth rate, even in a few years. There will be negative growth in the future.
The reason why young people are unwilling to have children is simple, because they cannot bear the financial pressure of buying a house and raising children. A house is an issue that almost everyone must discuss before getting married. In the traditional concept of a Chinese family, parents should buy the house for their children before they get married. This almost requires emptying out the old couple. The savings for a lifetime, and based on the current housing prices, 's money is only enough for the down payment, and the remaining loans need to be paid by the children themselves.
If you want to gain a foothold in a big city, you have to bear greater pressure from work and life. If you want to buy a house here, it means that you have to pay in addition to the necessary living costs every month. High mortgage loans, For young people, this means that when they open their eyes every day, they must earn a certain amount of money, otherwise they will not be able to survive.
Under such pressure, young people are beginning to seek breakthroughs, trying to find new ways of living, and more and more people
don’t want to get married and have children because they can Avoid many of the pressures of starting a new family. Therefore, although Chinese people's desires at the consumption level have not decreased, but at the level of marriage and family, the phenomenon of "low desire" has begun to appear.
Countermeasures
For the current development trend, we should try to make some countermeasures. For example: control the overall trend of economic development so that it can stabilize economic development in the future when the international economic situation is not good.
Secondly, with regard to marriage and childbirth, the regulation of housing prices should be further strengthened to avoid some inflated housing prices caused by activities such as "real estate speculation", and in the process of encouraging childbirth China, increase subsidies to reduce the pressure on young people to raise children, and at the root cause them not to fear getting married and having children.
Finally, as the younger generation, we must change our consumption concept, whether it is advanced or lagging consumption, we must avoid as much as possible. While working hard to make money, we must also save money appropriately. While saving money, we must also consume reasonably. Only in this way can we bring a good market environment to China and promote the sound development of China's economy.
In short, as far as China is concerned, we have not yet become a "low desire society" like Japan that does not buy a house and does not have marriage and childbirth. However, we are also experiencing similar trends in some aspects. In the future, young people of our generation should make certain changes, strive to reverse this trend, and maintain the current sound social status quo.
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